I`m excited to invite you to join this event with B`Tselem`s ResearchDirector, Yael Stein, and our colleagues from leading human rightsorganizations — Center for Constitutional Rights, Adalah, and Al-Haq —hosted by the Foundation for Middle East Peace.
I hope you`ll join us! – Simone, B`Tselem USA
The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) invites you to attend
Israel-Palestine at the International Criminal Court: What Next?
Thursday, February 25, 2021
11am – 12:30pm EST
Featuring:
Katherine Gallagher (Center for Constitutional Rights)
Hassan Jabareen (Adalah)
Michael Kearney (Al-Haq)
Yael Stein (B’Tselem)
In conversation with
Lara Friedman (FMEP)
RSVP Here
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pmO2VNhMTpe_HC9GqwCylw
FMEP is pleased to invite you to join us for this webinar — featuring apanel of Israeli, Palestinian, and international legal experts — examiningthe latest ICC ruling and its implications for the fight for accountability,justice, and human rights in Israel/Palestine.
On February 5, 2021, the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International CriminalCourt (ICC), found that “the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in theSituation in Palestine, a State party to the ICC Rome Statute, extends tothe territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaza and the WestBank, including East Jerusalem.” This ruling – explained by the ICC itselfhere – opens the door for investigations into alleged war crimes perpetratedby “members of the Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli authorities, Hamas, andPalestinian armed groups.”
This webinar is a follow-up to the ICC-focused webinar FMEP convened inApril 2020, in the context of the ICC’s then-ongoing consideration ofopening a formal probe into Israeli and Palestinian actions in the OccupiedTerritories. That webinar — which attracted nearly 1000 viewers in realtime, and which has been viewed nearly 1000 times since — can be watchedhere.
Participants
Katherine Gallagher is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center forConstitutional Rights, where works on holding U.S. and foreign officials,and corporations, including private military contractors, accountable forserious human rights violations through domestic civil actions, criminalcases under universal jurisdiction laws and actions using human rightsspecial procedures mechanisms. She has represented victims before theInternational Criminal Court, regarding sexual violence by Catholic Churchofficials; U.S. torture in the Situation of Afghanistan et al, andpersecution by Israeli officials in the Situation of Palestine. Prior tojoining CCR, she worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for theformer Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 2001-2006.
Hassan Jabareen is the founder of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab MinorityRights in Israel, serving as Adalah’s general and legal director since itsestablishment in 1996. He has litigated scores of landmark constitutionallaw cases regarding Palestinian citizens of Israel, including thePalestinian leadership, and international humanitarian law cases concerningPalestinians in the 1967 Occupied Territory before the Israeli SupremeCourt. Also, since 1998, he has been an adjunct lecturer for a course thathe initiated on the legal status of the Arab minority in Israel and otherlaw courses in the Faculties of Law at Tel Aviv, Hebrew, and HaifaUniversities. He has received awards for outstanding public interestlawyering and top human rights law prizes. @AdalahEnglish
Dr. Michael Kearney lectured on human rights and international law at theUniversity of York, LSE, and University of Sussex, and is a legal researcherwith Al-Haq. His academic publications include works on propaganda andincitement, statehood and self-determination, and various elements ofinternational criminal law, including extensive analysis of legal aspects ofthe situation in Palestine.
Yael Stein is the Research Director of B’Tselem. She holds an LLB from theHebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA in human rights from the Instituteof Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. Yael has authoredseveral of B’Tselem reports, including The Occupation’s Fig Leaf (2016),Getting Off Scot-Free (2017) and Fake Justice (2019).
Moderator
Lara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace(FMEP) and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East,with particular expertise on the Israeli-Arab conflict, Israeli settlements,Jerusalem, and the role of the U.S. Congress. She is published widely in theU.S. and international press and is regularly consulted by members ofCongress and their staffs, by Washington-based diplomats, by policy-makersin capitals around the world, and by journalists in the U.S. and abroad. Inaddition to her work at FMEP, Lara is a Contributing Writer at JewishCurrents and a non-resident fellow at the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP).She tweets at @LaraFriedmanDC